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Subject: Re: An interesting commentary by GM Gulko

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 22:02:40 03/19/02

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On March 20, 2002 at 00:56:15, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>On March 19, 2002 at 19:56:39, enrico carrisco wrote:
>
>>During GM Gulko's post-game analysis of his match with HIARCS 8, a watcher asked
>>Gulko to rate the strength of HIARCS 8 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being
>>Kasparov strength.  Gulko gave the rating of 6.
>
>Pretty meaningless because we only have one end of the scale.  Sure, 10 is
>Kasparov, but what is 1??  Is it the patzer at the local chess club?  Is it a
>random move generator?  Is it 2000, 2500, Karpov, Crafty, ... you take your
>pick.

Well, when you scale something, 1 is always the worst, and 10 is always the
best.

Just imagine what the "worst" is in Gulko's mind.  And I doubt it's Karpov.

>
>>
>>An odd comparison to say the least, but if anyone can contrast "strength" with
>>Kasparov, it would be Gulko. ;)
>>
>>-elc.



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